I’m a Software Engineer. I graduated with an M.S.c. in Computer Science (Distinction). I mostly work with Node.js and Python. I learn in the open by writing about my programming experiences with an aim to help beginners. My posts have over 150k reads and have been featured in DEV’s “Top 7”. I have a newsletter. Also, I love plants 🌱
Articles
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Blogging by a Radioactive Beach
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My First Golang Program
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I Built a Bot to Try and Get Money Back From My Internet Provider
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My Experience with Pair Programming
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An Introduction to Caching on the Web, With Examples in Python
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What If I Want My Website to Last for 100 Years?
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A Tutorial on Tricking Google: Encoding Messages in Apostrophes
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Your First Open-Source Pull Request: a Walkthrough
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Refactoring JavaScript for Performance and Readability (with Examples!)
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Saving Data in JavaScript Without a Database
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Interview Question: Implement a Progress Bar
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Solving Puzzles With High-Performance JavaScript
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A Tiny Project, From Inception to Deployment
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Continuous Deployment to Glitch via GitHub Webhooks
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Fun With Linear Time: My Favorite Algorithm
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What They Don't Teach You at a Computer Science Masters
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The Weird Rules I Set Myself That Got Me a Job
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How to Write an Awesome GitHub README
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Talking to Python from JavaScript (and Back Again!)
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Learn the Storage API by Building a Note Taking App (Tutorial)
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Embed Your Latest DEV Posts Anywhere (Tutorial)
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Build a Python Bot to Find Your Website's Dead Links (Tutorial)
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Answered: What the Heck is Code Golf?
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JavaScript One-Liners That Make Me Excited
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Need a Friend? Write a Reddit Bot with Python to Follow You Around (Tutorial)
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Earn a Build Passing Badge on GitHub! Testing Your Express App with Travis CI (Tutorial)
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Coding a Live Cam for the Raspberry Pi in Python (Tutorial)
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How Flappy Bird Got Me My Start in Software
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A Day in the Life of a Mediumly Productive Software Engineer
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Kicking Butt and Taking Names With WebSockets (Tutorial)
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Two Things About My First In-house Software Job That I Didn't See Coming
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Creating Cute GitHub Badges Based Off a Project's Mood (Node.js)
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Real-Time Streaming of Every Emoji Posted as a Comment to Reddit.com
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I Ported Sudoku to Your URL Bar and It Plays like a Dream
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Cloning Dominos Order Tracker as a Microservice with Node.js and Firebase!
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Benchmarking WebSocket Servers with Python!
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Leetcode - Episode 17 - Moving, Shaking, and Folding (3 x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 16 - Pretty Efficient (3 x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 15 - Three Tree Qs (3 x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 14 - Short, Easy Solutions (3 x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 13 - Finding My Stride (3 x M)
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Leetcode - Episode 12 - Starting Early (3 x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 11 - Faster than 99.17% (1 x M, 2 x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 10 - Short Solutions (1 x M, 2 x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 9 - Trudging Through (3x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 8 - Breaking Out Some Mediums (3x M, 1x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 7 - Getting More Pythonic (3x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 6 - Progressively Harder (3x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 5 - Fastest Solutions Yet (3x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 4 - gnivloS melborP (3x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 3 - The Streak Continues (3x E)
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Leetcode - Episode 2 - Three More Easys
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Leetcode - Episode 1 - Three Easys